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So that's it A wooden clock that's his claim to fame

What makes a man great? A man may be great in his aims, or in his achievements, or in...

Longitude • 2000

[on the BBC-TV show "Brains Trust"] Rupert Gould:
What makes a man great? A man may be great in his aims, or in his achievements, or in both, but I think that man is truly great who makes the world his debtor... who does something for the world which the world needs and which nobody before him has done or known how to do

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So that's it A wooden clock that's his claim to fame

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It was the first accurate clock ever built

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That's certainly one claim but not the most important

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It's the sea clocks they're the masterpieces

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And where are they John o'Groats

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I don't know I've never seen them

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Greenwich I suppose

Duration

22 seconds

Views

364

Timestamp in Movie

00:10:47

Uploaded

Apr 01, 2022

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Production

Granada Productions,A+E Studios

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Movie Summary

In two parallel stories, the clockmaker John Harrison builds the marine chronometer for safe navigation at sea in the 18th Century and the horologist Rupert Gould becomes obsessed with restoring it in the 20th Century.

Actors

Rupert Gould